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about foreign policy challenges in 2013. this is the opening section of "usa today" - >there are other stories in noting that the former senator, chuck hagel, when he was in office, approved about $38 billion in aid for the jewish state along with multiple trips to beat -- to meet with leaders there. that is a little bit of background on chuck hagel. david, indianapolis, democratic caller -- caller: good morning. i wanted to comment on the changes in the foreign policy that we will see. i agree with the last speaker, i believe the israelis need to be rained down. these guys used hawks, they elect hawks to take over their government and they are hardliners who will not bend when it comes to the palestinians or other middle eastern countries. we need someone to let them know that it is time to make a change in how they relate to the countries around them so that we can have peace in the middle east. there will not be a way as long as they consistently say that they will retaliate against anything that happens. host: two phone
about foreign policy challenges in 2013. this is the opening section of "usa today" - >there are other stories in noting that the former senator, chuck hagel, when he was in office, approved about $38 billion in aid for the jewish state along with multiple trips to beat -- to meet with leaders there. that is a little bit of background on chuck hagel. david, indianapolis, democratic caller -- caller: good morning. i wanted to comment on the changes in the foreign policy that we will...
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co-director of foreign policy and focus project at the institute for policy studies. direction is such a better life for a short break it tonight we report from venezuela for you which is becoming an appealing place for those who failed to find economic and social paradise in more traditional a. wealthy british style. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports. well again belfast has seen a fifth straight night of violence as police fought plastic bullets and water cannons and hundreds of loyalist protesters the angry mobs hurled bombs and bricks in your forty's injuring three about sixty officers been booted in bouts of violence over the last five weeks now since city always decision to only fly the union flag on special days there's been reports of loyalist paramilitary groups orchestrating the riots social justice academic peter shallow told us they might want to use the confusion as a base for more violent action there are several issues i think well f
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michael o'hanlon, you're already met, senior fellow and director of research and foreign policy here a brookings where he specializes in defense strategy. one of the most important prolific voices and defense issues, rich and literally hundreds of op-eds, columns, and articles, including one to point to you up on foreign policy but said right now looking at defense budgets . we are joined by richard -- richard betts, one of the top thicker -- thinkers and teachers, professor and director of war and peace studies at columbia university. numerous books have garnered critical success including it was an award from the american science association for the best book of political science. also a key facilitator of a summer security studies workshop that probably somewhere around 75 percent of all the security studies professors in the nation have attended. also a great deal of experience in the policy field, a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations where he served as director of national security studies, former staff member of the church committee and worked in the national sec
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because after four years of militaristic foreign policy that's how people see it chuck hagel former senator from nebraska vietnam war veteran has been one of very very few u.s. politicians who opposed u.s. military action and who dares to question and dissent from washington orthodoxies on foreign policy one of them has to do with israel he dared to publicly point out that the u.s. and israel are separate countries and american interests should trump israeli interests when they conflict and that's a subversive thing to say here in washington could be a career killer he advocated for direct negotiations with hamas he condemned the power of the pro israel lobby in washington here's one of his statements to that effect the political reality is that the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here i have always argued against some of the dumb things they do because i don't think it's in the interest of israel i just don't think it's smart for israel needless to say his nomination for the position of defense secretary has incurred a slew of objections for the past three weeks differe
because after four years of militaristic foreign policy that's how people see it chuck hagel former senator from nebraska vietnam war veteran has been one of very very few u.s. politicians who opposed u.s. military action and who dares to question and dissent from washington orthodoxies on foreign policy one of them has to do with israel he dared to publicly point out that the u.s. and israel are separate countries and american interests should trump israeli interests when they conflict and...
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he ended a changed man or at least a changed foreign policy thinker. it was not just the iraq war he began to question by the end. it was the republican party's entire turn towards the unilateral, the very idea that america had the idea to topple the multiple dictators. this is what makes hagel so important, he is one of the few who is changed by iraq. he goes on to write "what the republican foreign policy establishment fears is that with hagel as secretary of defense it will become impossible for obama to minimize the dangers of war with iraq." hagel will be what colin powell was in the '90s, the military man who reminds the colleagues at war, once unleashed can't be easily controlled. once you start with war with iran, hagel warned, you better be prepared to find 100,000 troops because it may take that. it may not be limited war fare, i don't think any nation could go into it that way. i don't know if he will be a better secretary of defense, but in choosing hagel, president obama chose a republican who the neo conservatives drove from the party. in
he ended a changed man or at least a changed foreign policy thinker. it was not just the iraq war he began to question by the end. it was the republican party's entire turn towards the unilateral, the very idea that america had the idea to topple the multiple dictators. this is what makes hagel so important, he is one of the few who is changed by iraq. he goes on to write "what the republican foreign policy establishment fears is that with hagel as secretary of defense it will become...
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policy republican foreign policy circles. we're going to see this play out in the next several weeks. >> john: let's talk about the specific controversy. what is chuck hagel's specific record when it comes to israel. >> he has been a long and historyic supporter. he has voted for sanctions against iran and advocateed for diplomat i canic approaches. this mirrors what the american people want. he has consistently supported aide to israel's military and he has great credibility amongst israeli leadership and even the israeli government said last night they don't want to get in the middle of this fight. this is something for the american people to decide, but his record with israel, and we'll see during these hearings will come out and it will be very strong and seen as a positive one. >> john: here is a man who has been to war and is being questioned by men who never wore the uniform in. >> this is a man who bled for his country. he had been in vietnam. he served with distinct. he received two purple hearts. he ran the uso supp
policy republican foreign policy circles. we're going to see this play out in the next several weeks. >> john: let's talk about the specific controversy. what is chuck hagel's specific record when it comes to israel. >> he has been a long and historyic supporter. he has voted for sanctions against iran and advocateed for diplomat i canic approaches. this mirrors what the american people want. he has consistently supported aide to israel's military and he has great credibility...
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foreign policy if indeed haig will go to his top man in the defense. the difference between hale and his predecessors is this hagel has been there done that ok hagel served in war he was an infantry noncommissioned officer wounded twice to two purple hearts he knows what war is like that means the difference and when hague will says he would be very very careful about employing our forces in fool's errands such as afghanistan god help us iraq he's going to be a worthy stand up against people like brennan who don't know the half of it and who never served our country's armed forces for the bodies attitude towards israel he's been accused of speaking out against the influence of the israeli lobby that in the us is that something that will be a stumbling block for his nomination hago famously said one time i'm not the senator from israel i'm the senator from america now. does that make good sense on the face of it would somebody be open to criticism for that kind of the you know it shows it shows how delicate this question is in our country that he can't
foreign policy if indeed haig will go to his top man in the defense. the difference between hale and his predecessors is this hagel has been there done that ok hagel served in war he was an infantry noncommissioned officer wounded twice to two purple hearts he knows what war is like that means the difference and when hague will says he would be very very careful about employing our forces in fool's errands such as afghanistan god help us iraq he's going to be a worthy stand up against people...
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foreign policy. is that, is that too strong of a view from this person? >> i think that's a lot in one person's view. but i think sort of looking at the other way. i think the president has the right to nominate whom he deserves and, in the case of hagel, it's somebody he's extremely close to. hagel should be questioned vigorously by the senate armed services committee. and his response to those questions will matter and his comportment in private meetings with senators will matter and then the senate will vote its will. i predict the senate will confirm him and, let's remember, he's not in charge of foreign policy for the obama administration. he implements the directives of the president and he will be the ceo of the defense department, which has our military and some of our civilian defense assets in it. but it doesn't have our foreign policy civil servants. >> arguably, the least, the least sort of influential of the national security team when it comes to policy. it depends on who -- but because -- >> it depends what the policy is. if it's prosecutin
foreign policy. is that, is that too strong of a view from this person? >> i think that's a lot in one person's view. but i think sort of looking at the other way. i think the president has the right to nominate whom he deserves and, in the case of hagel, it's somebody he's extremely close to. hagel should be questioned vigorously by the senate armed services committee. and his response to those questions will matter and his comportment in private meetings with senators will matter and...
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when you wanted to be a big cheese in the foreign policy environment, did you afghanistan. and that's what the generals did, richard holbrooke, others who drew their power from. he did a deal with particularly david petraeus, i had give you 30,000 troops on top of what's there. to gut punch the taliban and soften up the system. if you can chaung the circumstances, the military overpromised and underdelivered, and i think that the resolve of not only the president and joe biden having always been in that view, in coordination with others, and really, really recalled that deal in the terms and the deal and took troops back. and that broke the back of the notion that a large military footprint delivered automatically the kind of security deliverables that the military was promising. it created low back and counterreaction much like the lines that you showed in elizabeth miller piece, more violence after the surge than before the surge. >> that i think is the key conceptual transition that we went through, that we decoupled in our minds the idea of security advances from troop
when you wanted to be a big cheese in the foreign policy environment, did you afghanistan. and that's what the generals did, richard holbrooke, others who drew their power from. he did a deal with particularly david petraeus, i had give you 30,000 troops on top of what's there. to gut punch the taliban and soften up the system. if you can chaung the circumstances, the military overpromised and underdelivered, and i think that the resolve of not only the president and joe biden having always...
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look, barack obama beat mitt romney on foreign policy easily. this is not a guy who walks around in the way that democrats used to for all those years looking over his shoulder at this republican party that america trusts on national security. those days are gone. so i don't think he has the same fears that democrats did in the past. >> let's be frank. the public is very wary on the two wars we've waged. they want them to end. i think that works obviously towards hagel's favor. jo jon warner saved us from ollie north. weekly standard editor bill cross to kristol has been leading the charge against hagel. why is he doing this and why do people listen to his views on foreign policy in i think we know the answer. he's a charmer, he's brilliant, a great networker. anyway, let's watch him. >> whatever else you can say about this war, let me make one point, george bush is not fighting this like vietnam. we don't need to -- >> saddam may be. >> but it's not going to happen. >> let me take a call -- >> this is going to be a two-month war not an eight-ye
look, barack obama beat mitt romney on foreign policy easily. this is not a guy who walks around in the way that democrats used to for all those years looking over his shoulder at this republican party that america trusts on national security. those days are gone. so i don't think he has the same fears that democrats did in the past. >> let's be frank. the public is very wary on the two wars we've waged. they want them to end. i think that works obviously towards hagel's favor. jo jon...
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i don't think they're people who are going to try to take over foreign policy. this president runs his foreign policy with tom donelan national security advisor, joe biden, dennis mcdonough out of the white house to a large extent, larger than most presidents have since back to nixon. and i think both chuck hagel and brennan will be part of a team but very much in the mold of taking orders on the big decisions from the white house. with senator hague until he's confirmed really focuses, as david said, on managing the building, trying to find a way to reform the mission, post-9/11 world and a world with more orientation towards asia. but clearly with a premium put on defense cuts and if the sequester isn't worked out, maybe defense cuts right away. >> rose: hagel was a businessman before he became a politician. does she management skills? >> that's an open question. people are just now deviling into the business career. it's certainly there's -- look, there's almost no management challenge in the country like managing that building. there's complexities involved.
i don't think they're people who are going to try to take over foreign policy. this president runs his foreign policy with tom donelan national security advisor, joe biden, dennis mcdonough out of the white house to a large extent, larger than most presidents have since back to nixon. and i think both chuck hagel and brennan will be part of a team but very much in the mold of taking orders on the big decisions from the white house. with senator hague until he's confirmed really focuses, as...
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when you wanted to be a big cheese in the foreign policy environment, you did afghanistan. and that's what the generals did. that's what richard holbrooke, that's what others who were involved in drew their power from. and he did a deal with the military, and particularly david petraeus. i will give you 30,000 troops on top of what is already there to gut punch the taliban and try to soften up the system. and that's all you get. if you can change the circumstances. the military overpromised and underdelivered. and i think that the resolve of not only the president, but joe biden having always been in that view in coordination with others on the team like dennis mcdonough and tom donilon, really recall the deal and the terms of the deal and they took the troops back. and that broke the back of a notion that a large military footprint delivered automatically the kind of security deliverables that the military was promising. it actually created blowback and counter reaction much like the alliance that you showed in that piece that there is more violence after the surge than be
when you wanted to be a big cheese in the foreign policy environment, you did afghanistan. and that's what the generals did. that's what richard holbrooke, that's what others who were involved in drew their power from. and he did a deal with the military, and particularly david petraeus. i will give you 30,000 troops on top of what is already there to gut punch the taliban and try to soften up the system. and that's all you get. if you can change the circumstances. the military overpromised and...
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then hagel called it the biggest foreign policy blunder since vietnam. even if the troop surge had failed it would not have been that. this is a record to be proud of? after vietnam the country was gripped with a reluctance to use military force. it was known as vietnam syndrome. the first president bush thought he banished it with the success of the first gulf war. but with president obama re-elected, the u.s. out of iraq soon to be out of afghanistan and chuck hagel chosen for defense, that syndrome seems to be back again. >> bret: there are some in this town that the hagel nomination and all the controversy surrounding it is over hamas, the surge, it's going to get a lot of attention. perhaps it's going to take a lot of attention from the brennan nomination, do you buy that? >> i do. i think there will be a big fight over hagel. there will be confirmation hearings and suspends will he make it or will he not. i think in the end he will make it. it's unusual for the senate to engage in two major confirmations makess at the same time. >> bret: thank you.
then hagel called it the biggest foreign policy blunder since vietnam. even if the troop surge had failed it would not have been that. this is a record to be proud of? after vietnam the country was gripped with a reluctance to use military force. it was known as vietnam syndrome. the first president bush thought he banished it with the success of the first gulf war. but with president obama re-elected, the u.s. out of iraq soon to be out of afghanistan and chuck hagel chosen for defense, that...
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policy and defense over the years. the questionn answering if he's the nominee do his views make sense for that particular job? >> hagel is no stranger to the u.s. senate having served two terms there but could that be part of his problem? we should tell our audience that we all believe that chuck hagel will eventually be confirmed. that's not what we're talking about. i want to bring up what you asked john about, krystal, the gay comments. when you read them, as someone that supports gay rights i find them to be vile and then put myself back in the 1998 mind-set and what the military culture was like them. don't ask don't tell came out of the clinton administration because there was sort of an appetite for that. so he's apologized and i can forgive those comments. i just think it's really interesting that, you know, groups like the human rights council and other gay advocacy groups, people like barney frank coming around to chuck hagel and finding themselves to be very sort of accepting of his apology and i don't thin
policy and defense over the years. the questionn answering if he's the nominee do his views make sense for that particular job? >> hagel is no stranger to the u.s. senate having served two terms there but could that be part of his problem? we should tell our audience that we all believe that chuck hagel will eventually be confirmed. that's not what we're talking about. i want to bring up what you asked john about, krystal, the gay comments. when you read them, as someone that supports gay...
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that he's very well regarded on issues of foreign policy. the republicans used to hold an advantage on that mantle. have lost it to an extent. so they just want to pick a fight. >> hogan, here's the thing. are they truly itching for a fight on this especially given the optics of how they were able to, the right that is, kind of sour the test balloon that was that of susan rice? and now they're trying to sour the test balloon that is chuck hagel. we're just a couple hours away from the fact that he will be put up for this appointment. doesn't it look funny to have the right kind of eating their young, eating their own from a position that they would like one of their own to be in? >> you know, i don't know that they're really itching for a fight here. it just seems like whenever the president floats one of these names out there we have everybody fanning out their turkey feathers, strutting around the barnyard like they have something to say about it early on. when cooler heads prevail and if we can get to a senate confirmation hearing, chuck
that he's very well regarded on issues of foreign policy. the republicans used to hold an advantage on that mantle. have lost it to an extent. so they just want to pick a fight. >> hogan, here's the thing. are they truly itching for a fight on this especially given the optics of how they were able to, the right that is, kind of sour the test balloon that was that of susan rice? and now they're trying to sour the test balloon that is chuck hagel. we're just a couple hours away from the...
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- policy interests of the united states and interest of justice, i hereby order. we then provide the process whereby at guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now. >> four years later, 166 and remain locked up at the prison, 86 of them have been cleared for release. this week marks the 11th anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at guantanamo bay. all of this comes as president obama nominates counter- terrorism advisor john brennan to the head of cia. brennan withdrew from consider recession -- consideration for the same job in 2008 amidst protests over his role of the cia under george w. bush. brennan had publicly supported the cia's policies of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques and extraordinary rendition. for more we go to baher azmy, legal director for the center for constitutional rights. welcome back to "democracy now!" talk about the sycophants of this four-year anniversary of obama saying he would close guantanamo, the 11th anniversary of the opening of guantanamo. >> they are two grim markers for 166 men, this represen
- policy interests of the united states and interest of justice, i hereby order. we then provide the process whereby at guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now. >> four years later, 166 and remain locked up at the prison, 86 of them have been cleared for release. this week marks the 11th anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at guantanamo bay. all of this comes as president obama nominates counter- terrorism advisor john brennan to the head of cia. brennan...
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remember come the cia doesn't make foreign policy. the foreign policy team has decided to rebalance their focus on asia and obviously appropriately to focus on mali and in particular, which is a field state, where we have reason to believe this again is in the price, that a lot of terror organizations are grouping and training. the cia's role is only to provide intelligence about these parts of the world, not to make policy. i have worried over the years and adding that john brennan has, to, that too much of our intelligence practical. it focuses on who's coming up with the next hill on the battlefield. i think everybody gets it. most of afghanistan over recent years, how the wars are going to come out. it is a good idea to restore some of our focus on other parts of the world, including asia. i would hope that every bill and says the former policymaker and someone who has a policy institution, i would hope to rebalance tuesday show will focus on how we make relationships with china and others are difficult. i hope we focus on how we
remember come the cia doesn't make foreign policy. the foreign policy team has decided to rebalance their focus on asia and obviously appropriately to focus on mali and in particular, which is a field state, where we have reason to believe this again is in the price, that a lot of terror organizations are grouping and training. the cia's role is only to provide intelligence about these parts of the world, not to make policy. i have worried over the years and adding that john brennan has, to,...
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and these -- this team are incredibly well grounded in foreign policy. i think it was a lot of advice on how to handle the middle east from hagel and biden and kerry who are more or less in agreement going back a couple of decades on some of these issues. as you alluded to in the beginning on a trip obama made with hagel to afghanistan, he actually -- that is hagel advised obama to pick joe biden as his running mate saying that a biden -- you know, just great on policy and politics and can handle congress. so i think you have the sense that this is a kind of a very close group that obama has relied on for a long time and even though he will have been president for four years, he's going to continue to rely on and, you know, anything that sounds like an obama doctrine in the second term is a hagel, kerry, biden doctrine. >> michael, continuing the mafia movie theme we have going in this block, i think of "godfather 3," just when i thought i was out i get pulled back in. we're pulled in vietnam. that was the boogieman for decades. they didn't have the viet
and these -- this team are incredibly well grounded in foreign policy. i think it was a lot of advice on how to handle the middle east from hagel and biden and kerry who are more or less in agreement going back a couple of decades on some of these issues. as you alluded to in the beginning on a trip obama made with hagel to afghanistan, he actually -- that is hagel advised obama to pick joe biden as his running mate saying that a biden -- you know, just great on policy and politics and can...
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the nixon wing of the republican foreign-policy establishment largely applauded chuck hagel. this is not democrats versus republicans. these are views about the world and strategy which exist inside both parties. i think we make a mistake. i wish we had a realistic line versus other lines. you would find it is an interesting and useful learning moment. i do think it is one of the reasons why someone of my ilk has so much respect for senator hagel. john mccain is a true national hero, so is chuck hagel. i have been at dinners, i was the emcee at the nixon dinner paying tribute to john kyl. john mccain did the opening. this is not a war between people. we often over-emphasize these questions of division. these are real debates. this is why we are here. this is why we have the capital behind us for these major discussions. i think it was a problem for chuck hagel because he demonstrated independence of thought and questioning that was vital for the country. host: i want to go back to something you said and frame it in terms of what the president said. about and afghanistan, sayi
the nixon wing of the republican foreign-policy establishment largely applauded chuck hagel. this is not democrats versus republicans. these are views about the world and strategy which exist inside both parties. i think we make a mistake. i wish we had a realistic line versus other lines. you would find it is an interesting and useful learning moment. i do think it is one of the reasons why someone of my ilk has so much respect for senator hagel. john mccain is a true national hero, so is...
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relations president richard haass, author of the forthcoming book "foreign policy begins at home" and martha raddatz. martha, let me begin with you. we saw that announcement from the president on friday speeding up the withdrawal of american troops out of afghanistan. that's a little faster than the military wanted, but he was silent on how many troops would be left behind. what's behind the decision, and where do you expect it will end up? >> well, i think all through the election season, all they ever talk about was leaving afghanistan, but this is real. this was a very big deal this week and a very big change. u.s. troops will be in an advise and train -- that's all they'll be doing come spring. >> pulling back from the front lines. >> pulling back from the front lines. they will be with afghan forces. the president has not announced how fast they'll draw down but i suspect by the end of this year we could be down to 30,000 troops. we're 66,000 troops now, possibly down to 30,000 and when we really draw down in 2014, when we are no longer doing combat missions, i think you'll see a
relations president richard haass, author of the forthcoming book "foreign policy begins at home" and martha raddatz. martha, let me begin with you. we saw that announcement from the president on friday speeding up the withdrawal of american troops out of afghanistan. that's a little faster than the military wanted, but he was silent on how many troops would be left behind. what's behind the decision, and where do you expect it will end up? >> well, i think all through the...
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as you look at that, are you you comfortable with that as a foreign policy approach? >> well, i'm concerned, chris, about what this says and let's step back for a minute. exhibiting a light footprint what happened in the consulate in benghazi. the fact that security was not what it should have been there. the fact that we relied on local militias that there was a rise of activity by al-qaeda inspired militias in the area and a we didn't have the proper security there and during the attack didn't have the response within the 7 hour period that we needed to obviously save lives. let's step back further from that. what we have seen is a pattern from the president on numerous occasions where none of us want to is send men and women to war if we don't have to. and obviously we want to bring them home as quickly as possible but example a another example, iraq. we had -- he had the recommendations of his general, general austin, 15 to 18,000 troops as a followon and then it was peared down to 000. they couldn't negotiate a status of forces agreement and now you have al-qaeda
as you look at that, are you you comfortable with that as a foreign policy approach? >> well, i'm concerned, chris, about what this says and let's step back for a minute. exhibiting a light footprint what happened in the consulate in benghazi. the fact that security was not what it should have been there. the fact that we relied on local militias that there was a rise of activity by al-qaeda inspired militias in the area and a we didn't have the proper security there and during the attack...
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anybody out there wants to say that chuck hagel is outside the mainstream of foreign policy, i suggest they turn the mirror around on them. >> so josh, in your article as i said you pointed out some of these organizations who will come out and try to pressure lawmakers. joe says i suggest they turn the mirror back on themselves. are you seeing effective argument that is are last through the nomination process and may certainly put hagel against the ropes? >> i don't know if hagel is outside the mainstream but in a place there aren't many members of congress publicly, you know, when these letters are sent up by apac and other pro-israel groups, hagel among maybe six or four senators that didn't sign them and 90 senators did sign them. on operations like the libya operation, he was a critic of that. he seems to be opposed to a lot of u.s. military interventions overseas whether they be for humanitarian reasons or other reasons. i don't know if i'd say he's outside of mainstream but an argument is made he could be in some areas left of president obama at least the way president obama has
anybody out there wants to say that chuck hagel is outside the mainstream of foreign policy, i suggest they turn the mirror around on them. >> so josh, in your article as i said you pointed out some of these organizations who will come out and try to pressure lawmakers. joe says i suggest they turn the mirror back on themselves. are you seeing effective argument that is are last through the nomination process and may certainly put hagel against the ropes? >> i don't know if hagel is...
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host: chris jones calling iraq the single biggest foreign policy blunder in modern history. guest: that is senator hagel's view. and a lot of others. senator hagel votes for it, like many did, and it does a fair criticism that the bush administration sent to few troops and did not act sufficiently, quickly, to the insurgency that was happening there. i think it wasted three, three and a half years. frankly, the confidence in the american people about their competence in these things. then, i think, to their credit, president bush ordered the surge. it was for a clear the surge in the change in strategy worked on the ground. by the time the search was over with, -- surge was over with, stability had gone down. the number of casualties had dropped significantly. then the question is, were you going to stay there and try to help build a stable iraq over the long term? for a variety of reasons, some of them having to do with iraq, but some having to do with the obama administration's desire to get out of iraq today, we left that country. the result is kind of an increasing insta
host: chris jones calling iraq the single biggest foreign policy blunder in modern history. guest: that is senator hagel's view. and a lot of others. senator hagel votes for it, like many did, and it does a fair criticism that the bush administration sent to few troops and did not act sufficiently, quickly, to the insurgency that was happening there. i think it wasted three, three and a half years. frankly, the confidence in the american people about their competence in these things. then, i...
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that is what the future of the foreign policy will look like. >> some say the french president rushed the military operation to get ahead of the u.n. backed multilateral plan to deal with rebels in mali. whatever the timing, this mission with the u.s. on board in some capacity is underway. bret? >> bret: greg palkot if london. thank you. the state of the u.s. military is very much in flux tonight. the pentagon is staring at the very real possibility of severe budget cuts, as part of the looming sequestration. national security correspondent jennifer griffin on what that could mean. >> at the end of every war, the u.s. cut the military. in two years, the u.s. will go from 66,000 american troops in afghanistan to as few as 3,000. cost savings of $75 billion a year according to military experts. if the pentagon escapes the deep, immediate cut of sequestration, most agree that large defense cuts are looming. the man overseeing the cut is confirmed, defense secretary nominee chuck hagel. in august of 2011, hagel said the defense departmented was bloated, adding the pentagon needs to be par
that is what the future of the foreign policy will look like. >> some say the french president rushed the military operation to get ahead of the u.n. backed multilateral plan to deal with rebels in mali. whatever the timing, this mission with the u.s. on board in some capacity is underway. bret? >> bret: greg palkot if london. thank you. the state of the u.s. military is very much in flux tonight. the pentagon is staring at the very real possibility of severe budget cuts, as part of...
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. >> i think this speech given last night by this president represents the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since vietnam. >> as senator haig el also voted against sanctions on iran, a country dedicated to israel's extinction. instead he favored direct negotiations, viewpoints not at odds with but to the left of president obama. hagel also supported negotiations with hamas, a u.s.-designated terrorist group, and he said a lot of things criticized as insufficiently supportive of israel, a longtime and strong u.s. ally. in his 2008 book "the much too promised land," middle east analyst aaron david miller quoted hagel saying the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here, but i'm a united states senator. i'm not an israeli senator. hagel supported the pentagon's old don't ask, don't tell policy governing gays in the military, and in 1998 said of president clinton's openly gay nominee to be ambassador of luxembourg, quote, i think it is an inhibiting factor to be gay -- openly air, gressively gay like mr. hormel -- to do an effective job. last month more than 14 ye
. >> i think this speech given last night by this president represents the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since vietnam. >> as senator haig el also voted against sanctions on iran, a country dedicated to israel's extinction. instead he favored direct negotiations, viewpoints not at odds with but to the left of president obama. hagel also supported negotiations with hamas, a u.s.-designated terrorist group, and he said a lot of things criticized as...
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it should not be our foreign policy. it is a tool but many of our tools should be developed through prom -- diplomacy and soft power and john brennan understands this. one thing i hope he will do after he is confirmed, and i predict he will be, is take a fresh look at the cia mission, reduce the paramilitary part of that mission, that should be offloaded mostly to the pentagon with the exception of an intelligence function. -- the rest of the things the seat a dutch to be more conditional. host: are you talking about drones? guest: the cia has a huge role in our use of drones. it follows very careful legal steps. some can disagree and i disagree with portions of it but what i am saying is the role of the cia in executing drawn missions should be reduced. i think drawn missions over time to be reduced. the pentagon to be the place where military and paramilitary activities are launched and directed. the intel peace can happen at cia, at the operation of drones, it should move out of the cia and move to the pentagon. host:
it should not be our foreign policy. it is a tool but many of our tools should be developed through prom -- diplomacy and soft power and john brennan understands this. one thing i hope he will do after he is confirmed, and i predict he will be, is take a fresh look at the cia mission, reduce the paramilitary part of that mission, that should be offloaded mostly to the pentagon with the exception of an intelligence function. -- the rest of the things the seat a dutch to be more conditional....
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and foreign policy circles here in washington, but it would be less of an issue -- less of the issue that it is in terms of the where most republicans are today on some of these key issues. >> david drucker and jonathan capehart. thank you. >> hillary clinton went back to work on monday to a standing ovation after the stomach virus and blood clot sidelined her. they welcomed her back with a football helmet to protect her from further head injuries. her spokesperson said clinton's hair looked fabulous, just ahead, we'll look at democrats search for a woman to run for president in 2016. stay with us. . i had pain in my abdomen... it just wouldn't go away. i was spotting, but i had already gone through menopause. these symptoms may be nothing... but they could be early warning signs of a gynecologic cancer, such as cervical, ovarian, or uterine cancer. feeling bloated for no reason. that's what i remember. seeing my doctor probably saved my life. warning signs are not the same for everyone. if you think something's wrong... see your doctor. ask about gynecologic cancer. and get the insi
and foreign policy circles here in washington, but it would be less of an issue -- less of the issue that it is in terms of the where most republicans are today on some of these key issues. >> david drucker and jonathan capehart. thank you. >> hillary clinton went back to work on monday to a standing ovation after the stomach virus and blood clot sidelined her. they welcomed her back with a football helmet to protect her from further head injuries. her spokesperson said clinton's...
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he thinks about what is effcasus in national security and foreign policy. the most important thing about hagel and with all due respect to dan and some of his colleagues, there seems to be this effort by israel and its supporters over and over to continue to run resolution to say, how much do you love me america? do you love me today? do you love me again? i think what hagel has done, i am supportive of israel, but at the same time, not create a zero sum game between israel and its numbers that also have vital security relationships with the united states. >> chuck, can i respond? >> very important point he raises. on that point, signing a letter versus voting for aid are two different things. >> sure, but, chuck, when senators vote to designate the iranian revolutionary guard corps, a terrorist organization. what the senators cite is not just the threat that iran poses to israel, but what they pose to america. when they call on the eu to designate hezbollah terrorist organization. they cite the damage that hezbollah has done to american military men and wo
he thinks about what is effcasus in national security and foreign policy. the most important thing about hagel and with all due respect to dan and some of his colleagues, there seems to be this effort by israel and its supporters over and over to continue to run resolution to say, how much do you love me america? do you love me today? do you love me again? i think what hagel has done, i am supportive of israel, but at the same time, not create a zero sum game between israel and its numbers that...
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foreign policy. no because we're told by david cameron that we must allow islamist to take power in mali getting to the same david cameron who supported islam is rebels in syria so you've got to make his mind up why is it so terrible it is a mistake market wise to just the world whereas in syria the chinese ok if that happens and they overthrew a secular government there so i think this sort of policy of cameron sort of highlights the double standards behind u.k. pop policy really well the action is in its fourth day now we're already witnessing collateral damage to the rebels claim the france is falling into a trap worse than iraq or afghanistan could they be right there what it could be the case i think if we look back at all the major conflicts of the last hundred years still a country that's not always sort of reassure people back home it's only going to last a few days if we're back in the first world war going to be over by christmas we had the vietnam war was only going to last a few months ev
foreign policy. no because we're told by david cameron that we must allow islamist to take power in mali getting to the same david cameron who supported islam is rebels in syria so you've got to make his mind up why is it so terrible it is a mistake market wise to just the world whereas in syria the chinese ok if that happens and they overthrew a secular government there so i think this sort of policy of cameron sort of highlights the double standards behind u.k. pop policy really well the...
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